Kristi’s amusing reaction went viral and garnered millions of views on YouTube.

“All of a sudden, I was getting all these emails and phone calls – at that point I thought – it was pretty funny,” Gordon said of her unexpected fame after her reaction to the spider went viral.

In fairness to her, she has a fear of spiders, so it’s a bit like if a snake suddenly appeared on screen while Indiana Jones was reading the weather (there’s a gangbusters plot idea if ever there was one).